Alan Thicke visits Access Hollywood Live to talk about his upcoming Hallmark film, “Let It Snow.” Plus, which ‘80s iconic sitcom theme songs did Alan write? And, being a Canadian, what does he think about the outrageous antics about Toronto mayor, Rob Ford?

Breaking it all down next. Great to be back on
access. Great to be here. Kit looking more like a
kitty. Oh, robin thicke. And the great alan thicke. Alan
is in a new show "let it show." I watched
it alone in my brand new adjustable bed. Up' down
the whole thing. Your side or -- she's got her
own. Sometimes we pass each other. Now, alan, robin, an
amazing impression of you. Do you do one of him?
Coincidentally I notice we're wearing the same jacket today. No,
no, I don't do robin. First of all, I dabbled
in music, but robin has raised the brand to an
art form. His kind of talent skips a generation, apparently.
No. Filled out the forms. That was my big contribution.
You say dabble. Gave me the '8s so theme song
you wrote. I did wrote -- I wrote and sang
eye the the different strokes song. That's all you get.
You take the bad you take them both, and there
you have it -- there's so many channels they're so
anxious to get the next show started they don't bother
with the 20 or 30 second theme song. That's a
shame. We used to have a longer theme on this
show and we canned it for the same reason. You
are from canada. North of toronto. And I understand you're
very good friends with the mayor, rob ford, up there.
I was born between -- not in toronto between wayne
gretzky and shania twain. And rob ford -- I don't
know the gentleman. I am being inaugurated in the canadian
walk of fame, big tv special, so I'm sure the
afterparty will be at his house. But it's crazy when
there's somebody up there that makes justin bieber look good.
Are you having fun with his? Yes. He is --
the motherland? A little bit of both. Rob ford is
so anticanadian in terms of his image. We're a polite,
soft-spoken, conservative bunch, with the exception of jim carrey and
martin short, but he has just blown it up. Rob
ford has gone another direction. He has apologized act least.
What he really said was, what I meant to say
was, I'm really a fat moore ronic crankhead who couldn't
run a car wash, much less a metropolitan. You mentioned
wayne gretzky. Is it true he baby s.A.T. For robin?
He was house sitting at one point when I was
withmy other son in norway, and he was house-sitting for
a couple of weeks, and the phone call came in
one night that he had just been traded to --
from edmonton to los angeles, and he better gift his
bucket on a plane the next morning, and robin took
the call. No way. Robin is ten years old. Became
a legendary moment in canadian sports history. Robin took the
call. Robin took the call. I'm sorry, wayne is asleep.
Well, wake him up. It was a momentous milestone. Now,
speaking of momentous and milestone. We're sitting on the set
that you have been to many times. Not only did
johnny carson do "the tonight show" here but. When came
to l.A. I had taken year career writing for comics
and that included on this stage, flip wilson did his
series. Richard pryor. I was the head writer on that
show. Head writer for richard pryor. The best standup off
all-time when you're writing for that guy. I took credit
for it, but you sit and pitch him a premise
and say how about if you were the old blues
guy coming home one night -- and if he likes
the premise, takes it from there and then he would
stand up, walk around, and start performing in character, that
premise, and then you click on your old caseate machine,
record and it transcribe it. Is that one of the
play and record at the same time? Exactly. We'll get
into "let it snow" which I watched and loved, and